It is time for free nations to stop ignoring or even normalizing tyranny. Not only is it the right thing to do… — Erin O'Toole Copy Share Image
The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism. — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Look, if you have a problem with distilling the Battle of Thermopylae down to freedom versus tyranny, you need to read Herodotus… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
We ought therefore to suspect that a great mass of information respecting the Bible, and the introduction of it into the world,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous... — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
No government which governs by the use of force can survive except by force. There is no going back because force begets… — Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo Copy Share Image
A book is somehow sacred. A dictator can kill and maim people, can sink to any kind of tyranny and only be… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“ Tacitus appears to have been as great an enthusiast as Petrarch for the revival of the republic and universal empire. He… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Some of the strongest resistance to necessary change is the result of what Jim O'Toole has so aptly characterized as "the ideology… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
We all know that books burn, yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke of tyranny around the world: look at British democracy. Is that what… — Andy Zaltzman Copy Share Image
The person who is right is the person who is the strongest, in this case, paradoxically, it's the cowards who are the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
If there is no struggle, there is no progress....This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one;… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
the most sacred business of judges is not to ratify the will of the majority but to protect the minority from its… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Seditious libel is the doctrine that flourished in England during and after the Star Chamber. It is the hallmark of closed societies… — Harry Kalven Copy Share Image
“Nonviolence is often the path of wisdom, but not always. Love and passive resistance are wonderfully effective weapons against some kinds of… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
All the cops are just workers for the one percent, and they don't even realize they're being exploited. — Ray Lewis Copy Share Image
Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, but leech-like to their fainting country cling, till they drop, blind in blood, without… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense… — Beverly Sills Copy Share Image
My brothers, seek counsel of one another, for therein lies the way out of error and futile repentance. The wisdom of the… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
